The Kauffman Foundation's "Entrepreneurship in American Higher Education" report - a highly anticipated document by some of the leaders in higher education has been released. This is a VERY important document for those of teaching Arts Entrepreneurship. It can be downloaded here.

Fritz Fleischman - "Entrepreneurship as Emancipation: The History of An Idea." Fritz_Fleischman

Steven Spineli interviews Fleischman about the above paper - MP3 NOTE: The link appears towards the bottom of this page).

"It is also possible to be too pure and otherworldly for the good of our students, who will, after all, have to make their way in a largely commercial world. Giving students a chance to participate in a commercial or entrepreneurial venture can be an enormously valuable learning experience so long as they are allowed to appreciate and manage some of the business realities of those ventures and are not simply exploited as unwitting instruments of the ventures."

Douglas DempsterDean, College of Fine ArtsThe University of Texas at Austin